Gasoline in the Model T era was anything but cheap - a gallon cost perhaps 20 - 25 cents. That was enough money to pay for a hamburger dinner, the equivalent of $7 - $8 today.
Kerosene on the other hand was getting cheaper every year during the 1920's because more and more houses in the city were becoming electrified, causing a world wide glut of kerosene on the market.
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Originally Posted by jeep44
Farm tractors of the period often had two gas tanks. You started the tractor with gasoline, and when it got warmed up, you switched it over to run "tractor fuel" or "distillate" or kerosene. People pinched pennies back then, even when gasoline was seemingly so cheap.
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